Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999)
19991h 5mMusicDocumentary
This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.
Cast
Robbie RobertsonSelf - Mohawk/Cayuga
Rita CoolidgeSelf - Cherokee
John TrudellSelf - Santee Sioux- BBenito ConchaSelf - Benito Concha (archive footage)
- SSharon BurchSelf - Navaho (archive footage)
Floyd "Red Crow" WestermanSelf - Sioux- HHerb MykeSelf - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
- DDoug MykeSelf - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
- EElaine BomberrySelf - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations
Derek MillerSelf - Six Nations musician- UUlaliSelves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)
- JJoanne ShenandoahSelf Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee
- JJohnny MykeSelf - Payute
- VVerdell PrimeauxSelf - Navaho
- CCarlton H. HoahwahSelf - Comanche
- MMark G. WauahdooahSelf - Comanche
- PProfessor Cornel PewewardySelf - Comanche
Buffy Sainte-MarieSelf - Cree (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Dana Heinz Perry
- Producers
- Dana Heinz Perry
- Cinematography
- Hart Perry
- Editing
- Dana Heinz Perry
Details
- Released
- January 1, 1999
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Perry Films
- IMDb
- tt0325775